Zero-day sales not "fair" -- to researchers

Zero-day sales not "fair" -- to researchers
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-06-01

Two years ago, Charles Miller found a remotely exploitable flaw in a common component of the Linux operating system, and as many enterprising vulnerability researchers are doing today, he decided to sell the information.

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RU_Trustified

I wonder how much of this is fair to end users, especially if vulnerabilties are not reported to vendors like MS. What are the ulterior motives for buying this information? Purely altruistic? Doesn't appear likely, somehow.

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Anonymous

Cry me a river Mr Miller 2007-06-04
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